Sure, everyone knows that West Hollywood is a gay-friendly neighborhood, with rainbow flags flying from restaurants and bars. But did you also know that the phrase “lipstick lesbian” originated at Peanuts, a “femme” bar on Santa Monica Boulevard? Or that there was a riot against police brutality in Silverlake on New Year’s Eve 1966, years before Stonewall?

Those are among the tidbits offered in a three-hour gay-themed tour of Los Angeles run by Out and About, a bus tour company started in response to Proposition 8, the California ballot initiative that outlawed same-sex marriage.

The tours, led by the company’s founder, Jim Anzide, and his guides, are playful explorations of the past. Participants share a cocktail with drag performers at the Other Side, one of the last gay piano bars in the city. Later, at the corner of Hollywood and Vine, they listen to a monologue written by Harry Hay, a pioneering gay rights activist, about the pleasures and dangers of cruising in the 1950s.

The tour, held on a vintage British double decker, costs $60 and leaves from the One National Gay Archives at 1 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays. A brunch tour starts later this month.